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they didn't allow any home runs tonight which is good since they gave up six last night, but it didn't matter much. the o's finished with just one win this year. bases loaded finish them. and another stroke out here for a single center, ty wiggenton scores. they have a chance to add to it, but they strike out there. and nolan reimold. bottom of the 7th, danny comes in, pouring gasoline on the fire. victor martinez, a base hit that is a clearing double off the base of the area.
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mark clayton says he will play against the chiefs. he didn't play preseason because of a hamstring injury, but he has been going full string in practice. he's always ready. and they will take that field for their 14th season with the ravens. he gets the fans fired up from that start and they stay loud until the final is gone, after all these years, ray says there's no place he would rather play. better electricity in that building. you know, they have their own oár a about it. you appreciate why people appreciate who you are and it is so loud and so crazy and fans, they are just out of control and they are ready right now, we're ready, they are ready. he just gets so fired up listening to him. he could be a little shorthanded though. they probably won't start it right there. chris chest will. tied for them that is questionable as well. playing exactly one series
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against the falcons, this whole preseason. and that was in the finale. but they say that they are ready to go as well. they say that their injured foot is doing just fine. they also say that, well, she's a lot more comfortable around their coaches this year. i think maybe they are a little too comfortable. >> i would say we're more mature. you know, we've got that awkwardness of having a new coach and all that. now we all can be ourselves around that and each other. we could fire around our coaches, you know what i mean? you never know how they are going to fire it. >> yes. that's all. >> all right, i'm pretty sure he said to his coach that they are cute. [ laughter ] finally for the all star leading for them and second half, trying to bend it in and they cannot do it. scoring off the free kicks.
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at 800.974.6006 tty/v all right, he said that distinctly. thank you for watching. we'll see you tomorrow. good night.
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tonight on "nightline," make or break. president obama delivers a bold call to action on healthcare. challenging his republican opponents to stop what he calls the scare tactics and telling lawmakers the time to act is now. political showdown. so did the president win the support of a divided congress and an increasingly skeptical american public? george stephanopoulos joining us
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to break down the big speech. plus, robin roberts has an exclusive interview with the president as we visit the top hospital that inspires him. a special edition of "nightline," the healthcare fight starts right now. captions paid for by abc, inc. good evening, everyone. i'm terry moran. and we begin tonight with president obama's major speech on healthcare reform. it was an urgent call to action. one that bluntly even emotionally challenged what he called the scare tactics of some of his republican opponents. but when the president admitted that some of the tough details of his plan still need to be ironed out, lawmakers from both parties laughed out loud. and at one point a republican
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member of congress actually heckled the president yelling at him, you lie! well, the deep divide reflects just how entrenched this healthcare fight has become. it was another high pressure moment for president obama. >> madam speaker, the president of the united states. >> he has lived on the political high wire from the campaign, through the financial crisis and the stimulus battle and now healthcare. >> i'm not the first president to take up this cause, but i am determined to be the last. >> yes, there were ghosts in that chamber tonight. the other presidents two tried to reform the healthcare system and failed. from teddy roosevelt to harry truman to bill clinton who came to congress 16 years ago this month with his plan. >> there's still a lot of people who say it would be an outright miracle if we passed healthcare reform. but my fellow americans, in a time of change you have to have
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miracles. and miracles do happen. >> not that year. year clinton and the democrats got hammered politically. meet this challenge year after year, decade after decade, has led us to the breaking point. >> so the stakes were high again. and the congress president obama addressed was bitterly divided again. not just the republicans, his own party. he had his work cut out for him, and he went at it with relish. >> we know we must reform this system. the question is how. >> first, the problem. the president sought to remind americans of what they disliked, even feared the most in the system by offering emotional examples of all too familiar
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healthcare nightmares. >> it happens every day. one man hadn't reported gallstones that he didn't even know about. they delayed his treatment. and he died because of it. that is heartbreaking, it is wrong and no one should be treated that way in the united states of america. >> but how to fix the system? that is the question that bedevilled so many presidents. and that has ignited the divisive battle in the media and on the internet and in town hall meetings across america. >> the time for bickering is over. the time for game has passed. now it's a season for action. now is when we must bring the best ideas of both parties together. and show the american people that we can still do what we were sent here to do. now is the time to deliver on
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healthcare. >> this was not some safe, predictable healthcare policy speech. president obama was going in rhetorically and the atmosphere thickened. it exploded when he tried to answer the most inflammatory charges against his plan, like that idea of death panels that would deny care to the old and sick. >> now, such a charge would be laughable if it weren't so cynical and irresponsible. >> and then he tried to answer another accusation and listen to what happened. >> there are also those who claim that the reform efforts would ensure illegal immigrants. this too is false. the reforms -- the reforms i'm proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally. >> you lie! >> that was republican congressman joe wilson shouting, you lie, at the president. a rarely used word in the house chamber, explicitly prohibited by the rules. he later apologized. the president simply moved on.
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focusing on his message. trying to take the high road. leaving wilson and others behind. >> if you come to me with a serious set of proposals, i will be there to listen. my door is always open. but know this. i will not waste time with those who have made the calculation that it's better politics to kill this plan than to improve it. >> the plan itself the president claimed will deliver what polls show americans want -- security and stability in healthcare, the end of those nightmares. >> under this plan it will be against the law for health insurance companies to deny you coverage because of a pre-existing condition. as soon as i sign this bill, it will be against the law for insurance companies to drop your coverage when you get sick or water it down when you need it the most. >> the president also called for
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a mandate that all americans have health insurance. a new insurance exchange where small businesses and individuals could buy low-cost coverage, and most controversily, a so-called public option, a government insurance program. >> it could provide a good deal for consumers. and it would keep pressure on private insurers to keep their policies affordable. >> there was another ghost in the chamber tonight, the spirit of senator ted kennedy who fought for decades for universal care. and with his family watching from the gallery, president obama invoked his legacy and read from a letter kennedy wrote him in may. >> we face, he wrote, above all a moral issue. at stake are not just the details of policy, but fundamental at the end, preside obama sought to draw on the grand rhetorical tradition of president kennedy and others,
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trying to summon the country to a great and necessary endeavor. >> we did not come to fear the future. we came here to shape it. i still believe we can act. even when it's hard. >> so president obama tonight seeking to change the dynamics and the tone of the healthcare debate. and when we come back, so has he made his case? did it work? george stephanopoulos joins us to break down the big speech. what is cloud computing? a cloud is a workload optimized, service management platform enabling... ...new consumption and delivery models. it's what? my cloud does email. lowers my energy bill. shares pictures. we collaborate on our cloud. i develop software in my cloud. i want a cloud that understands risk. ...compares patient histories... ...predicts traffic patterns. my cloud is... everywhere. my cloud is secure. simple. powerful. flexible. that's what we're working on. i'm an ibmer. let's build a smarter planet.
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well, as bold and grandly rhetorical as president obama's speech may have been tonight, it will only be considered a success of course if lawmakers are able to achieve a meaningful compromise. pass meaningful healthcare legislation. so will it be enough? we're joined by our chief washington correspondent george stephanopoulos for his take. george, first, what did you make
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of this speech? it seemed a different kind of healthcare speech, if you will, to me. how did it strike you? >> well, definitely a different kind of healthcare speech and before most speeches in front of the joint session of congress. president obama's biggest speech, last year, at the convention, earlier this year at the inaugural, he tended to take a tougher and somewhat partisan tone. even though he endorsed some recommend can ideas, i think the -- republican ideas, i think it was the most emotional i think i have seen president obama in a major speech. his anger at the tone and tactic of his opponents was very palpable tonight. even seemed to get caught up in the emotion of the moment towards the end of the speech in the final few sentences. what's hard to know yet is whether this made any huge difference in the congressional dynamic. my sense is no. i don't think he did much tonight that would change the minds of republicans who are dug in against this plan, though he may have helped a unified
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democrats which is an important goal of his. >> and sure didn't seem like he was winning over the vote of one republican, republican joe wilson of south carolina who violated house rules as i understand it and broke with the old tradition that there's respect for the president no matter what party when he hollered out, you lie. >> what a moment that was, terry. now, this never happened before and you never have seen a president use the word lie before and it was remarkable when the president said doesn't cover the an apology. he had to. because he probably was that -- -- that who two-word sentence did more to unify democrats tonight as president obama did in the whole speech. >> it might have helped the president by making him look bigger in relation to his
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opponents in some eyes. do you think that the president was persuasive tonight with middle america? >> i think he was clear. i think he was the clearest yet in explaining his plan and in a debate where he acknowledged in the speech confusion has reigned. i also think his emotion helped at times when he talked of what -- those examples of what insurance companies have done to desperately illamericans. i think one section of the speech, terry that probably didn't work as well, even if it was necessary was that whole discussion of the public health insurance option where the president was kind of take -- tangled up in knots, on the one hand, he supported it and on the other hand, it's not that important, and the reason he did that was cause the democrats
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couldn't get together on how to pursue it before the speech. >> as a result of the speech, do you think there's going to be big deal, a big compromise? >> not with the republicans. the president has not called republicans into his out of. i think the white house congressional leaders are gearing up to try this to get it with democrats alone or maybe democrats and a few republicans. the only thing that could change that is if i believe the republican party sees that this thing isn't going to be stopped, the democrats have the votes. that might force the compromise in the final moments. >> so big speech back to business. thanks, george. as always, george stephanopoulos. when we come back, robin roberts, her exclusive interview with the president and a behind the scenes look at a top hospital that he thinks may offer a better healthcare model. which beneful prepared meal tonight? roasted chicken recipe? okay, savory rice and lamb stew. [ barks ] you're right. tonight is a beef stew kind of night. you've made another fine choice. look at those beefy chunks all packed with protein,
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